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Way I see it...a TOP 50 player in baseball is someone you hope you have 1 of on your system ..ONE... So yes it has to be like a Gore + Mejia + Naylor type package to get that ONE top 50... I mean it could maybe be a Patino + Franchy + Hedges + MOREJON package too ..if they wanyed a couple MLB pieces ... Obviously you ain't getting a top 50 player in baseball without getting a little sore...but that top 50 player is bird in hand...and you know What happens to the 2 on the Bush more often than not..

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While I would love to have both players, I think the cost would be very high; especially with the year Nimmo just had. You might be able to hold onto Tatis, but you aren't going to get around giving up a combo that includes Gore, Mejia, Paddack.

yup... Except the Mets probably prefer Hedges over Mejia, and I would be ok with 2 of those 3 going to the Mets in a deal for Noah + Nimmo... I see Nimmo as a poor mans Yellich and Noah with DB at Petco.. OMG...

The point is, teams are going to know that the Padres are interested, that the Padres have the chips and that AJ isn't afriad to go big. It'd be surprising if nothing happens.

AJP < Great when Buying...

I thought he did quite well with Kimbrel + Upton when he bought...

I think the one trade that we will always associate with AJP is the Myers one... But even that one Bauers (P got used to him and he looked like a bench player and PH at best towards the end.. barely hit over .200 (.201) and his WAR took a dive to 0.6...only Turner 4.1 WAR (2018) looks like the real loss on this one... But at least we got Myers, the true losers were the RAYS for letting Turner go for Souza Jr, but even then they got a decent package for him from DBacks...

I can see why AJP did the trade, #1 he was a rookie GM, and gambled (still gambling) on Myers putting it all together... #2 he traded players that werent his, or his type of prospects and he wanted to put his own signature on our Padres... and I am OK with that... We got value on that deal so far, just not the Trea Turner type value...

The Kemp trade was pretty interesting at the time and still is now.. Grandal was kind of a malcontent dude here, and had a very good 1st yr with LAD but has been just OK to OK+ since... Sure Kemp could have been a hell of a lot better here but he did give us a very solid Offensive yr his 1st yr here as well.. his negativity and $$ made him an easy target to ship out.. Still with Hedges on the come, and Ownership pushing for a splash AJP was sort of pushed to make that trade...

I think AJP learned a lot, and knows talent better than most (Tatis Jr, got Castillo then had to give him back to Marlins, etc) but to what extent he was asked to trade for those assets and to "quick contend, make a splash" when 1st hired, probably not a fair way to judge him being a BUYER....

We now how great a seller he is (the true AJP, running his own trades), I say lets give him a shot, yet again, to BUY and see what he comes up with, now that he will do so with his own collection of players and on his own...

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Lowe got me thinking about second baseman with the arm for third and two names jumped out: Isan Diaz and Shed Long.

Long is particularly interesting because, with Suarez, Gennett, Senzel and India ahead of him, it doesn't seem like he'd be too hard to get and the Reds need pitching. Something like Nix straight doesn't not make sense.

I know I know... but I dont see much separation between Long and our own Potts and France.. In fact France looks to me like another possible breakout rookie (like Reyes), a sleeper of sorts and SDSU alumn to boot...

With that said I wouldnt mind Long for a Nix type deal.. at all, and Long has some C background which could make him a little more valuable than most down the road.. I dont think the Reds trade Suarez (at all) that is one hell of a cheap deal he is on for the next few yrs... But GENNETT is arb already, and FA in 2020, he could be a BUY at not so expensive price (Reds likely to try and get something from him before FA hits) and a possible extension candidate if we were to trade for him.. 2 things I like about him, he can hit left handed and he has Pop... I dont think the Reds can afford to keep him, Votto and Co..... But maybe they can... Which then brings us to SENZEL, he probably cost a lot more than GENNETT to get, but also could be available if say the Reds were to extend GENNETT in Arb... to keep him, obviously they could also work out an extension and then trade him to us, or trade him to us and we could work on the extension during/before arb.

In any case the Reds are alive in our pursuit of a 3B this offseason.. but lets not count out my boy FRANCE or a Villanueva/Lefty bat Platoon at the hot corner just yet.. as far as Long is concerned, I like him but not enough to give up too much to get him at this juncture..

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It's almost guaranteed that AJ's going to give up someone painful in the next 9 months. Hopefully it's worth it this time.

That PAIN is something we are going to have to get use to.. this year and every yr for the next decade if AJP has his way/s... The system will just be too loaded and too deep not to... we likely will lose a few AS caliber players in our pursuit of a crown, hell we may even lose a CY or 2 in the process... I mean Lauer, Lucchessi/Lauer/Paddack/Patino/Gore/Espinoza/Lamet/Weathers/Morejon/etc. etc. etc. etc.. Thats almost 2 ENTIRE rotations and in 5 yrs at least 4 or 5 of these guys will be gone.. lets just hope we keep the right ones...

And we still have this years draft (2019) and now we are also back in the INTL signing (no penalty) playing field... so even more talent coming... not to mention trades as players approach FA and/or are deemed redundant by the Padres, bringing yet more assets...

As long as we win some, lose less than we win, and continue to create a treadmill effect from the DSL to AAA where is "next up" and so fort so on, the best years of Padres baseball are a coming...

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I found this little gem.. 2017 AStros (WS champs) how were they built... and boy oh boy some of those trades they definetely lost (but did they? they do have a ring on their fingers that maybe even with ONE of those trades not going down doesnt happen)